Parsing a chemical formula

Question

I\'m trying to write a method for an app that takes a chemical formula like \"CH3COOH\" and returns some sort of collection full of their symbols.

CH3COOH would retu

Answer 1

Have you looked into expressing your chemical formulas in Chemical Markup Language? It is very versatile and there are lot of tools/viewers out there that can render these chemical forumulas or compounds in 2D to 3D.